World’s fastest train link starts in China

China launched the world’s fastest rail link with a high-speed train connecting the cities of Guangzhou and Wuhan at an average speed of 350 kilometres an hour,substantially cutting down the travel time.

The super-high-speed train reduces the 1,069 KM journey linking Guangzhou,a business hub in southern China near Hong Kong,with Wuhan,a metropolis in central China,to a three hour ride and cuts the previous journey time by more than seven-and-a-half hours,Xinhua news agency said.

Test runs for the rail link began earlier in December during which it recorded a maximum speed of 394.2 km per hour and the operations officially began today,said Xu Fangliang,general engineer in charge of designing the link,according to Xinhua.